On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who,at the dawn of victory sat down to wait- +thus waiting,died. 'W. Lawrence'

There are those so out of touch with the realities of Africa as those clothed with any kind of authority. 'W.D.M. Bell'

Here is a couple from Plato. "Complacent ignorance is the most lethal of the soul." And then we have ."Better a good enemy than a bad friend."...cmon gents,in your lifetimes you must have surely heard some gems. Here is a good place to share them.

"I don't give a damn about these people who can split a pea at 300 yards.What I want to know about a man is how good is he on a charging buffalo at 6 feet." 'Phillip Percival'

Famous quotes from RVN:

1. Don't sweat the small shit. And if nobody's shooting at you or lobbing RPG's in your general direction; it's all small shit.

2. Slang terms. "Don't mean nuttin", "Ain't nuttin but a thing", and my favorite, as social commentary, "There it is.".

To use taxes to cure a defecit is like using leeches to cure anemia. "R.Reagan'

"I'm gonna beat that MoFo like he was Rodney King."

Hillary Clinton, when first hearing that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination.

The highest obligation and privelege of citizenship is that of bearing arms. 'George Patton'

quote:

The highest obligation and privelege of citizenship is that of bearing arms.

"The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country." George Patton

Guns have only 2 enemies, rust & politicians. No clue as to who coined the phrase.

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that
you end up being governed by your inferiors." .....Plato


“ -Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” ....Thomas Jefferson


"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" .....Thomas Jefferson


"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the president...." .....Theodore Roosevelt


“If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we'll finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the state" .....Harry S. Truman


"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.".....Winston Churchill

Never do your enemy a minor injury. 'Clausewitz'

quote:

“ -Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” ....Thomas Jefferson


"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading" .....Thomas Jefferson

Two more of the many spurious quotes attributed to Jefferson.

I don't guarantee attribution these came in an email, but funny.....

Football.....

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football" - John Heisman

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game." – Bear Bryant / Alabama

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!” - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money, and we don't have any." – Erik Russell / Georgia Southern

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Notre Dame

"When you win, nothing hurts." - Joe Namath / Alabama

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes / Ohio State

"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." - Bob Devaney / Nebraska

"In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant." - Wally Butts / Georgia

"I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." – Alex Karras / Iowa

"My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor.” - Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades." - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." - Shug Jordan / Auburn

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me ." He said,"Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren't any good." - Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel." - Bobby Bowden / Florida State

"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport." - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was, "All those who need showers, take them." - John McKay / USC

"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.” - Murray Warmath / Minnesota

"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb." - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches." - Darrell Royal / Texas

"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking." - John McKay / USC

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

Ohio State 's Urban Meyer on one of his players:"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.”

Why do Tennessee fans wear orange? So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.

What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs? Drool.

How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb? None. That's a sophomore course.

How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk?The cow fell on him.

Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. One of them said, "Look, a dead bird."The other looked up in the sky and said,"Where?"

What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit? "Will the defendant please rise."

If three Rutgers football players are in the same car, who is driving? The police officer.

How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend? There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.

What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room? A full set of teeth.

University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week; the other half will have to dress themselves.

How is the Kansas football team like an opossum? They play dead at home and get killed on the road.

Why did the Tennessee linebacker steal a police car? He saw "911" on the side and thought it was a Porsche.

How do you get a former Illinois football player off your porch? Pay him for the pizza.

“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.”
― Jeff Cooper

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
― Thomas Jefferson


“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
― Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle


“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like.”
― Alan M. Dershowitz


“Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”
― A.E. Samaan


“Regulated" rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.”
― A.E. Samaan

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government." --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, 1787

"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it."- Col. Jeff Cooper (1920-2006)

“When bad men combine, the good must associate: else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” -- Edmund Burke

God made the cat so man could pet the tiger. Old India saying.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities of his opponents. 'Churchill'

A couple from our politians. #1-We know that 90 % of the felons in our prisons are former children. 'Rep. Debbie Stabanow' .#2-Before I give you the benefits of my remarks I'd like to know what we are talking about. Senator Dick Allen.

One of the most delicate jobs of life is teaching our children how to avoid hurting other peoples feelings without being liars. 'Will Rogers'

21) Trust everyone, but cut the cards. Unknown

I enjoy foreign expressions, which often have similar meanings to ones we use everyday, but different words. Spanish dichos are favorites.

22) La vida es un fandango y cuando se es joven, debe bailar.

Life is a fandango (dance) and while one is young, he must dance. Unknown

23) “Bullfight critics, row on row,
Fill the enormous Plaza de Toros;
But only one is there who knows,
And he is the one who fights the bull.”
― Domingo Ortega

24) "In peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."
Croesus, King of Lydia

25) "I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting."

General Curtis LeMay

26)She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON)

27) "Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

Lewis Grizzard

Anyone who names his lab "Catfish", is my kind of guy. Gone too soon.

The price of apathy is to ruled by evil men. 'Plato'

Bread is the opium of the people. Kipling.

But for writing I might have been a pimp,a process server,or a politician,3 trades to which I attach equal nobility of aim. R. Ruark.

Those who pick their friends by their wealth and social stature, usually deserve them.
Attribution unknown

When passion ebbs,meaning erodes
+ without meaning there is no interest in existence. Ruark.

"Love is love + fun is fun but it is all so quiet when the goldfish dies." Bror Blixen,also Hemingway + Baryl markham as well as others.

From Platoon Sgt and RANGER School Sr. TAC Instructor Charles Krudupp, my second day of RANGER School training regarding our mission in Vietnam: "Kill them all, God will sort them out...".

A nice quote Rich,albeit it was first used I believe in 1156 during the siege of Constantinoble when the Christians took the city from the muslims.When questioned by a sub atlern as there were many Christians in the city;his reply was,"Kill them all,God will know his own."

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Churchill.

"Endeavor to Persevere" by Lone Watie in the movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales. There will be times in life when that's all you've got.

No matter how gorgeous she is...there is a guy out there somewhere who is sick of her shit

When there is lead in the air, there is hope in the heart.

From Stettin in the baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Churchill, March 5 1946

Courage is being scared as hell and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne